The virtualbox port forwarding dialog will be filled in to look like the following:

The part that is always difficult to remember is that the guest ip address is 10.0.2.15.

To connect to that vm now

ssh -p 2001 [email protected]

I so rarely need to run raw SQL queries that I have to look up how to use joins every time I need to use one.

sudo mkfs.ext4 /mnt
sudo gpasswd -a michael-abrahamsen storage

Creating a logical volume

sudo lvcreate -L 250G vg0 -n vms

How can you get more granular stats for a livestream video? One option is to use Google analytics and google tag tracking.

https://www.analyticsmania.com/google-tag-manager-recipes/youtube-built-in/ has a great resource on how to set up a events with google analytics. I used this page as a resource when …

Redirecting pages with Craft-CMS. A client was using Redirect Manager with to handle their redirects but in a moment of need today it stopped working. Luckily, Craft-CMS has a redirect tag that was able to be used. {% redirect "webinar" %}

This post will explain how to add Google reCAPTCHA to a Python Flask application using Flask-WTF.

The first thing you will need to do is get your SITE KEY and your SECRET KEY from Google reCAPTCHA Make sure to create a reCAPTCHA version 2 site. Version 3 takes much more …

Another day working with Craft CMS

Using the codebase that the client gave me I was struggling to figure out how they were embedding their youtube videos into a page. The html for the section I was trying to duplicate looks like this:

<section id="intro" class="">
    <div class="container-fluid …

I'm creating a new page with editable fields using Craft CMS. I've never used Craft and am working on an already created site. With the large amount of field groups already created it was difficult to follow the docs as they said to Add a new field group. I could …

Today I am working to create a webinar registration page for a client. The proposed idea was to add a page to their Craft CMS site that would have a form to collect email addresses and send them confirmation and reminder emails. Instead of trying to figure out how to …

Creating the first site on Conveyor.dev can use some improvement. Currently the user will need to create the site, create the server, then wait for the server to finish provisioning before heading to the "Sites" page where they can then see that the site has not been added to …

Late in 2019 The Tesla 2.0 battery was finally upgraded. The battery life had finally degraded to the point that it was only getting about 8 miles per charge. The old battery was 48V 10AH, the new battery is a 48V 20AH and The Tesla 2.0 now has …

Updates to the registration page

To allow Flask developers to use Conveyor without a subscription some changes will need to be made to the registration page.

I wanted to make sure the onboarding process for new users is as easy as possible. To help with that, I am removing the …

Made a chart comparing some of the features of virtual conference apps. The comparison includes: Fonteva, cVent, Whova, vFairs, Evia, and All In the Loop

The goal with Conveyor is to help Python developers deploy their code.

To help serve this mission, Conveyor.dev is going to allow Flask developers to deploy an api or application to a Linode or Digital Ocean server without the need for a subscription.

Allowing users in without a subscription …

When running chsh -s /bin/zsh the command would fail with Shell not changed. The solution was to use chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh which does not fully make sense to me because chsh -l lists both /usr/bin/zsh and /bin/zsh. Fixed and moving on.

This is a documentation of an Arch Linux installation with luks and lvm.

The drive will use a boot partition which will remain unencrypted with a second partition which will be encrypted with luks and then use lvm to create volumes within the lux encrypted partition.

Resources: https://computingforgeeks.com …

Found a UI bug on the Conveyor event output. The close button is outside of the event modal.

To fix this I'm actually going to move the close button up to the top right corner and make it an X. Just a small rearrangement of html:

<div class="border-b text-center …

Today I wanted to write a function to send me an email when someone registers for conveyor.dev

To do this I wrote the following test:

@patch('routes.send_reg_notification_email')
@patch('stripe.Customer.create')
@patch('stripe.Subscription.create')
def test_notification_email_is_sent(self, mock_sub, mock_cust, mock_email):
    mock_cust.return_value = stripe_customer
    mock_sub.return_value = stripe_subscription
    self …

Created a short script today to make trades on the gemini platform. Simple, not DRY, and it works. One improvement I will probably make the next time I use this is to change the buy function to accept units of a currency other than dollar.

import requests
import json
import …

After installing jedi-vim earlier this year and just using it's default settings I finally made some time today to figure out a couple issues that I have been missing. All that meant was taking a few minutes to read the docs.

What I've been wanting the most is for an …

Here is a script I wrote today to convert all .mp4 videos in a folder to audio so I can listen to them while I drive.

!#/bin/bash
find -name '*.mp4' | while read file
do
    filename=$(basename -- "$file")

    # get the file extension - this line could be useful in other cases …

Finishing event parsing branch

I left off with this branch last by writing a unit test

def test_event_parses_byte_string_list(self):
    test_data = [b'', b'Fetching origin\n', b"Your branch is up to date"]
    expected_output = "Fetching origin\nYour branch is up to date"
    output = parse_events(test_data)
    self.assertEqual(expected_output, output)

Once …

Pythonic - an idiom used for the python programming language that encourages code readability while striving for an optimal solution to a problem.

This idiom drove a lot of decisions when building conveyor.dev

To try to make a simple solution that works for most applications.

No container orchestration, no docker …

Zoom recordings are often only available for a limited amount of time after the recording and they do not allow an easy way to download to reference again later. There is a solution: you can use youtube-dl to download previously recorded zoom calls or meetings.

Shorthand command for reference in …

Today is a travel day so I'm going to work on closing up some loose ends. There was a question about the i3 lock post over the weekend so I made some edits to that post to help clarify.

Added posts that have been sitting in drafts.. even if they …

After a refactor in Conveyor.dev the event output display became a bit hard to read and needs some rework. The biggest issue right now is getting the output from a server command returns a list of byte objects generated based on the stdout and stderr of the command.

So …

The goal for today is to clean up how site log files are stored

First, creating a subdirectory for each site in the /var/log/uwsgi/ folder will help keep things organized. This directory should be made when the site is created. The permissions will also need to be updated …

While getting things ready for today I used the command to create a new journal entry for the next day dev-journal 1. When doing this on the last day of the month the title for the entry was incorrect. The title generator was echo "Title: Developer Journal: $(date +%d" "%B …

Today is going to be a short coding session. My only plan is to write a test for an issue that is not allowing the rotation of site logs to work correctly. The problem is just a permission issue as the user does not have permission to write to the …

Updating the dev-journal script to open previous day

This morning when starting this entry I wanted to be able to check look at what I was was working on yesterday and found that what I've been doing is navigating to the file and opening the previous day. However, since I …